Ok so I have assembled my Gen7 Board.

I am still checking all the tracks to make sure that there are no short circuits.

I still need to get the boot loader onto the 1284 before I can use the board.

Spoke to a local vendor he is more that willing to load the boot loader onto the chip and 

ship it to me. 

If I don't manage to load the boot Loader this weekend I will  take this course of action.